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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Bell, Justine C. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
To test the claim that digital learning tools enhance the acquisition of visual literacy in this generation of biology students, a learning intervention was carried out with 33 students enrolled in an introductory college biology course. This study compared learning outcomes following two types of learning tools: a traditional drawing activity, or…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, College Students, Biology, College Science
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McNeilly, Anne – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
The minimal-marking project conducted in Ryerson's School of Journalism throughout 2012 and early 2013 resulted in significantly higher grammar scores in two first-year classes of minimally marked university students when compared to two traditionally marked classes. The "minimal-marking" concept (Haswell, 1983), which requires…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Journalism Education, Grading, Grammar
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Wilcox, Susan; Leger, Andy B. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
In this paper we report on research we conducted to begin the process of identifying threshold concepts in the field of postsecondary teaching. Meyer & Land (2006) propose that within all disciplinary fields there seem to be particular "threshold concepts" that serve as gateways, opening up new and previously inaccessible ways of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Concept Formation, College Faculty
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Hvenegaard, Glen; Link, Anne-Marie L.; Moore, Sean E.; Wesselius, Janet C. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
North American universities are encouraged to increase opportunities for undergraduate research experiences (UREs). To this end, many universities offer directed studies courses (DSCs) which are 1-2 semester long courses involving one-on-one instruction, with a focus on student-led independent research. Building on the understanding of dynamics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes